The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-06
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by lightning near Rapid City, D. T.
THIRTY-FoUR deaths from the heat were re-
ported at the Coroner's office in New York on
Monday.
JOHN YoUNG, of Roaring Springs, Pa, can
part his beard in the middle and after wrapping
it three times around his neck tie the ends
A Mrs. WEIDMAN of Davis county, Ia. trod
on a potato bug with her bare foot crushed the
insect and the poison killed her within two
hours.
A MAN entered the Verona, N. V, post office
and timdly asked for postal card saying that
"he had never used one Of them things, but
would risk 1t for once anyway"
THE horses on the street cars of New York
have suffered terribly during this hot weather.
They die at the rate of forty day, and more
than 1000 have died sine June I.
kansas CRY in 1855 had 200 people. To-day it
has $4,000, stands tenth among the cities of the
Union in the amount of its bank clearanceS,
and does business of $500, 900, coo year
LIGHTNING struck in twenty-eight places with
in the limits Of Bridgeport, Conn. local authori-
ty records, during storm on Sunday. Trees
and buildings were shattered, but nobody was
hurt.
AS near as can be estimated, one-third of the
fires in this country are due to inceudiares, and
another third to carelessness. 1t is estimated
that the careless man is responsible for the de-
struction of say S25,0OO,00O worth of property
annually.
Miss BELLE DELoNG, a popular young lady or
Council Bluffs Ia. left her home last winter to
become member of the Salvation Army. Her
relatives mourned her as dead until last week,
when she returned to her family dsgGsted with
her halelujah experience.
WASHINGTON is great town for dogs There
were 5987 licensed dogs in that city last year,
and probably as many more unlicensed. Some
of the licensed animals bear the name of Gro
YER Cleveland; three are named after Gen. But
Ter, two after Garfield and Grant, and one each
for Blaine. jefferson Davis. Horace Greeley and
Thomas Jefferson.
GEORGE BARBER, of Appleton, Wis, lost
horse on June s, and supposed it had been stolen.
Monday night he recovered it from Mr.. Mcrrell,
of Rantoul upon whose promises the animal
came on July 5. In the interval not accounted
for the horse fattened up and learned to pace,
Single-foot and iOpe gaits with which he was en-
trcly nacquainted before.
Mrs. LENA HALL, u wrinklcd, coffee-colored
woman, recently applied to the health commits
sioner Of St. Louis for n burial permit. She said
that she was l07 years old and could not live
much longer and wanted to make all the neces-
sary preparations for her death while she was
able. She was much disguised at being told
that ante-mOrtem burial certificates were never
issued.
thousands at Peoria and Pekin, and along the
bankof the river they are piled up by the
wagon-load The cause is attributed to the low
and impure water which is said to have been
poisoned by the still Stops of the Peoria distil-
leries. Old river men, however say the same
thing occurred years ago before there were any
diStilerieS at Peoria.
NEAR TAMARoA III, several days ago, a little
child of Mr. Vaughman was set in its high chair
at the table while its mother was getting dinner.
A chicken came in at the door and flew upon
the table Mr.. Vaughman threw a case knife at
the chicken: the knife glanced rebounded
and struck the child in the forehead. cutting a
cash near the temple about an inch and half
long. The child lived about week.
Town CLERK R. H. WHITAKER of Salem,
Ill has young leghorn rooster that possesses
a wonderful liking for music. When Mr.. Whit
takers daughter seats herself at the piano to
play he passes into the room through the door
or window, flies upon the instrument, and after
| looking at the keys for short time he proceeds
to run up and down on the keys, and the tones
| thus made seem to fill him with delight.
ALL the Eastern bath houses keep bathing
corsets as a regular thing, and nearly every
woman wears them this year. II used to be
! that only actresses did that, but persons ac-
customed to corsets feel SO utterly limp without
that. apart from the pretty appearance they
give the figure, they are comfortable in them
selves. OF course they are not laced tight, and
are made of reeds instead of the usual steels.
In the recent death of Baron Gleichen- Russ
wurm, the husband of Schiller's youngest
daughter, Emile, who herself died about fifteen
years ago, German literature lost one of the
few connecting links between the present and
the classic past The castle of Gleichen in
Franconia had by its posseSsors been trans
formed into a vertable Schiller museum and it
is hoped that its literary treasures and relics
will be permanently preserved to the German
nation.
In Detroit. Mich, Friday last Charles w.
Sloughton and wife, both colored, were SEN
fenced to thirty days in jail for assaulting an
old colored woman named Lee The accused
both swore in court that the old woman had
vOudoued them, causing innumerable toads to
fill their cellars and Yards Shiny lizards
haunted them, and both became sick whenever
Mrs. Lee was about. She told them to draw
blood on her and the witchcraft would cease
Sloughton was formerly an attorney.
The Florence (Arizona) Enterprise says: The
Pima Indians select several promising youths Of
their tribe from time to time for repositories of
their traditions, Judge J. D. Walker saws and
they are carefully instructed in the historical
legends pertaining to their tribe, being REQUIRED
| to commit them faithfully to memory. They in
turn instruct their successors, and thus preserve
| the traditions in the exact language recited by
| their ancestors Of mdny years ago They have
knowledge of the tribe that built the old Casa
Grande and other vast buildings, whose ruins
now excite such interest and curiosity. The de-
scendants Of this tribe now live in Sonora and
from them il may be possible to learn much Of
the civilization that once prevailed along the
Ciiia river.
THE story runs that Mr., Edmund Yates bad
his pocket picked and lost his watch. worth
$780, in going to a Gulldball ball; whcreupon
Mr. G. \. Sala says: This comes of being
naughty, Mr. Yates and wearing chronomcters
jewellcd in many holes. and riding in handsome
cabs, and such like. My own name is Old Art
full Mr. Sala left his watch at home. and his
overcOat to boot on the night of the ball and
the Commissioner of City Police allowed his
humble four-whceler to stand in the Old Jewry
hard by Guldha so that ne had not the slight
est difficulty in getting there or in getting away
to work. which was not over till . in the morn
ing. Mr.. Sala, by way Of chat, as he ia in re-
ceipt of quite $500 year from his pen says
his own particular handsome gold watch is at
present in the keeping of his uncle, " who is
paSsonately fond of articles Of veItu, and
politely declines to part with his timeSeeper
until ridiculous process called redemption is
gone through.
A THOROUGH STUDY Of the subject of petroleum
lamps has been lately made by Sir Frederick
Abel. lie suggests that the reservoir of a
kerosene lamp should always be OF metal. the
moro strongly 10 resist any explosive tendency
of the oil or vapOr within, and that there should
be no other opening than that for the wick
unless SO small q one that flame could hardly
enter II. He further says the wick should he
soft aud dry when put in, and should completely
fill its space, but without forcing; that il should
he scarcely longer than 10 touch the bottom Of